.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 304 126
Rank change year-on-year +54 -178 +35
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 650 393 1,983
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.78% 0.99% 2.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.44% 5.03% 10.77%
Number of salaries quoted 624 329 1,828
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £38,066
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70,313 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £104,600 £87,875
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,737 7,812 18,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.46% 19.64% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 6,666 5,253 14,823
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,838 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,268 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.91% +10.45% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 19 June 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 19 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +65 145 £55,000 +10.00% 42
North of England +8 145 £55,000 -8.33% 47
Midlands +41 100 £55,000 -8.33% 20
East of England +54 90 £65,000 +18.18% 20
London -90 90 £85,000 +6.25% 52
South West -7 76 £52,500 -12.50% 10
North West +16 74 £55,000 -8.33% 24
West Midlands +13 52 £55,000 -8.33% 11
East Midlands +11 48 £55,000 +4.76% 9
North East -4 48 £65,000 +33.33% 14
Yorkshire -49 23 £55,000 -8.33% 11
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.38%) IIS
3 5 (0.77%) CMS
4 3 (0.46%) Confluence
5 2 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.31%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.15%) DNN
6 1 (0.15%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.15%) Immediacy CMS
6 1 (0.15%) Kentico
6 1 (0.15%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Magento
1 2 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 485 (74.62%) Azure
2 154 (23.69%) Azure DevOps
3 98 (15.08%) AWS
4 94 (14.46%) GitHub
5 90 (13.85%) Azure AI
6 81 (12.46%) GitHub Copilot
7 51 (7.85%) Azure Logic Apps
8 45 (6.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 45 (6.92%) SaaS
9 41 (6.31%) Power Platform
10 35 (5.38%) Serverless
11 26 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
12 25 (3.85%) Power Automate
12 25 (3.85%) PowerApps
13 24 (3.69%) Azure Functions
14 22 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
15 21 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
16 19 (2.92%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 19 (2.92%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.38%) Internet
2 7 (1.08%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.46%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.31%) Firewall
5 1 (0.15%) AMQP
5 1 (0.15%) HTTP
5 1 (0.15%) Modbus
5 1 (0.15%) SSL
5 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 304 (46.77%) Azure SQL Database
2 241 (37.08%) MongoDB
3 148 (22.77%) SQL Server
4 92 (14.15%) Elasticsearch
5 34 (5.23%) Power BI
6 13 (2.00%) MySQL
7 12 (1.85%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.08%) Redis
8 7 (1.08%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.92%) NonStop SQL
10 5 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.77%) GIS
11 3 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.31%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.15%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.15%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 30 (4.62%) Git
2 11 (1.69%) JIRA
3 7 (1.08%) GitLab
4 6 (0.92%) Visual Studio
5 5 (0.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.46%) MSI
6 3 (0.46%) NUnit
6 3 (0.46%) Vite
7 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.31%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.31%) webpack
8 1 (0.15%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.15%) MSTest
8 1 (0.15%) Postman
8 1 (0.15%) Selenium
8 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 91 (14.00%) Finance
2 50 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 36 (5.54%) Advertising
4 32 (4.92%) Games
5 25 (3.85%) Marketing
6 23 (3.54%) Retail
7 19 (2.92%) Banking
8 12 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (1.38%) Aerospace
9 9 (1.38%) Automotive
9 9 (1.38%) Law
10 8 (1.23%) Front Office
11 7 (1.08%) Legal
12 6 (0.92%) Music Industry
12 6 (0.92%) Public Sector
13 5 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.77%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.62%) Back Office
14 4 (0.62%) Electronics
14 4 (0.62%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 525 (80.77%) Developer
2 377 (58.00%) .NET Developer
3 109 (16.77%) Senior
4 104 (16.00%) Software Developer
5 65 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 64 (9.85%) C# Developer
7 54 (8.31%) C# .NET Developer
8 51 (7.85%) Lead
9 47 (7.23%) Software Engineer
10 46 (7.08%) Full-Stack Developer
11 32 (4.92%) Lead Developer
12 30 (4.62%) Senior Software Developer
13 26 (4.00%) .NET Software Developer
13 26 (4.00%) .NET Software Engineer
14 23 (3.54%) Senior Software Engineer
15 21 (3.23%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 20 (3.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 19 (2.92%) Azure Developer
17 19 (2.92%) C# Software Developer
18 17 (2.62%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 650 (100.00%) .NET
2 356 (54.77%) ASP.NET
3 292 (44.92%) ASP.NET Core
4 163 (25.08%) HTML
5 160 (24.62%) CSS
6 159 (24.46%) React
7 156 (24.00%) Entity Framework
8 146 (22.46%) Blazor
9 130 (20.00%) RESTful
10 121 (18.62%) Vue
11 119 (18.31%) AngularJS
12 118 (18.15%) ASP.NET Web API
13 111 (17.08%) .NET Framework
14 105 (16.15%) Node.js
15 90 (13.85%) ML.NET
16 72 (11.08%) LINQ
17 54 (8.31%) REST
18 40 (6.15%) JSON
19 25 (3.85%) WPF
20 21 (3.23%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 65 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 36 (5.54%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (2.77%) Cloud Native
4 14 (2.15%) Digital TV
4 14 (2.15%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.00%) Hedge funds
5 13 (2.00%) iPhone
5 13 (2.00%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.00%) Sports Betting
6 12 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (1.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 11 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.69%) Social Network
8 8 (1.23%) BBC
8 8 (1.23%) Social Media
9 7 (1.08%) Algorithms
10 6 (0.92%) AI Agents
10 6 (0.92%) Client/Server
10 6 (0.92%) Low-Code
10 6 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.00%) Android
2 12 (1.85%) VMS
2 12 (1.85%) Windows
3 3 (0.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (59.38%) Full-Stack Development
2 298 (45.85%) Agile
3 203 (31.23%) CI/CD
4 186 (28.62%) DevOps
5 141 (21.69%) Microservices
6 117 (18.00%) AI
7 110 (16.92%) Machine Learning
8 102 (15.69%) Multithreading
9 93 (14.31%) Software Engineering
10 68 (10.46%) OO
11 57 (8.77%) SDLC
12 55 (8.46%) TDD
13 54 (8.31%) Scrum
14 52 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 51 (7.85%) Analytics
16 49 (7.54%) User Experience
17 46 (7.08%) Containerisation
18 44 (6.77%) MVC
19 43 (6.62%) Business Intelligence
20 40 (6.15%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 607 (93.38%) C#
2 403 (62.00%) SQL
3 196 (30.15%) JavaScript
4 159 (24.46%) TypeScript
5 36 (5.54%) PowerShell
6 19 (2.92%) Python
7 12 (1.85%) T-SQL
8 11 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
9 7 (1.08%) Bicep
10 4 (0.62%) Java
10 4 (0.62%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.46%) Bash
11 3 (0.46%) PHP
11 3 (0.46%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.15%) C++
12 1 (0.15%) Delphi
12 1 (0.15%) F#
12 1 (0.15%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 40 (6.15%) Degree
2 19 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (1.08%) Security Cleared
4 6 (0.92%) Azure Certification
5 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.62%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.62%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.31%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.31%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.54%) QA
2 15 (2.31%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.62%) WCAG
4 3 (0.46%) NCSC
5 2 (0.31%) GDPR
5 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.31%) ITGC
5 2 (0.31%) SLA
6 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 144 (22.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 136 (20.92%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.92%) Terraform
3 1 (0.15%) Ansible
Vendors
1 372 (57.23%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.38%) Facebook
3 29 (4.46%) Google
4 19 (2.92%) Adobe
5 14 (2.15%) YouTube
6 8 (1.23%) Apple
6 8 (1.23%) Sony
6 8 (1.23%) Yahoo!
7 5 (0.77%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.62%) Workday
9 3 (0.46%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.46%) Splunk
10 2 (0.31%) Foundry
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle
10 2 (0.31%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.31%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.15%) Alterian
11 1 (0.15%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.15%) IBM
11 1 (0.15%) Reuters